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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334
HITT 4 LOWRY ST. SERV
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
7 1 mi Your No. 231 UoimI Morning! h's Tut'silay, Juno . I) 7V 14 Pages 15 Cent.'
Carter tells nation of Victory' on SALT
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President
Carter told Congress and the American
people Monday night the new U. S.-
Soviet strategic arms limitation treaty
will survive critical scrutiny because it
is " clearly in the interest of American
security and world peace."
Carter addressed a joint session of
Congress about two hours after he
returned from Vienna, where earlier
Monday he and Soviet Communist
Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev signed
the arms pact the fruit of nearly
seven years of negotiations. After their
historic signing. Carter and Brezhnev
called the treaty a " victory" for
humanity in its effort to head off
nuclear destruction.
When the last of 16 signatures was
placed on four documents making up
the treaty, Carter rose and kissed
Brezhnev on both cheeks and the
presidents embraced in a warm ending
to the summit that brought them
together for the first time.
From the euphoria of Vienna, Carter
traveled straight into the harsh reality
of the Senate, where a formidable bloc
of anti- SAL- T senators already had
begun sniping at the pact and
promising to bury it under unac-ceptable
" killer" amendments even as
he flew home. A two- thir- ds vote in the
Senate is necessary for the treaty's
ratification.
" The truth of the nuclear age is that
United States and the Soviet Union
must live in peace or we may not live
at all," Carter said in a nationally
televised address delivered from the
hall of the House of Representatives.
" My fellow Americans, the pattern of
war must now be broken forever," he
said. " Between nations armed with
thousands of thermonuclear weapons
each capable of causing unimaginable
destruction there can be no more
cycles of war and peace. There can only
be peace."
He said he would deliver the treaty to
the Senate this week for ratification a
vote not expected to occur until late this
fall.
He cautioned that SALT II would not
end U. S.- Sovi- et rivalry, adding that the
competition between the superpowers
is " based on fundamentally different
visions of human society and human
destiny."
" In any age, such a rivalry risks
degenerating into war," he said, " but
our age is unique, for the terrible power
of nuclear weapons has created an
incentive for avoiding war that tran
scends even very deep differences of
politics and philosophy."
In the era of the hydrogen bomb, he
said, " there is no longer any
meaningful distincton between global
war and global suicide."
In a passage obviously addressed to
SALT critics who have begun accusing
him of " appeasing" the Russians, the
president said the United States would
also maintain " strong military forces,
strong alliances and a strong national
resolve so strong that no potential
adversary could be tempted to attack
us."
Reviewing some of its mam
provisions, the president noted that the
pact for the first time places equal
numerical ceilings on the strategic
arsenals of each side and ends a Soviet
advantage in that area.
He also said it preserves U. S. options
to build the forces needed to maintain
the strategic balance and " enhances
our ability to monitor Soviet actions. ' '
In rushing straight to Capitol Hill, the
president underscored the fact that
SALT II faces a ratification struggle
that could be decided by one or two
votes, a struggle in which no chance for
dramatic lobbying can be wasted
Insight
SALT II
faces ordeal
in Senate
By Jim Anderson
United Press International
SALT n is so complex and involves
such frightening weapons that the
Senate will be tempted to decide its fate
on an emotional basis if this treaty is
good for the Russians, can it be good for
America?
To President Carter, the answer is an
emphatic yes. He, and other treaty
supporters, think it provides the last,
best hope for stopping the arms race,
something that will benefit both sides
and lessen chances for nuclear war.
Opponents such as Sen. Henry
Jackson, D- Wa- sh., say the Russians get
all the advantages. He calls the treaty
" appeasement in its purest form."
Senate debate on the treaty starts
next month and probably will last until
Thanksgiving, given the high feelings
tiie pact evokes and the complex
provisions whose meaning even
military and intelligence experts
cannot agree upon.
It is the complexity that will tempt
some senators to do what some court
juries do when bewildered by con-flicting
expert testimony, render a
verdict based on gut feeling.
Another temptation will be to tinker
with treaty provisions, an approach
both Carter and Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev have warned against
since the pact contains so many trade-offs.
Numerically, the advantage is with
opponents as debate starts, because the
treaty cannot be ratified unless two- thir- ds
of the Senate votes for it.
To make the Senate's job easier, and
to support his case, Carter will offer his
own detailed analysis of the treaty
package.
The package itself is 55 typewritten
pages long, single- - and double- space- d.
Interspersed in the text, are " agreed
statements" and " common un-derstandings."
These detailed ex-planations
of fine points in the
agreement are designed to clear up
ambiguities.
Early criticism of the treaty has
homed in on an attached letter from
Brezhnev to Carter stating that the
Soviet Union will not increase the
" radius of action" of its Backfire
bomber.
In town
today
9 a. m. Boone County Court, fifth
floor, County- Cit- y Building.
11 a. m.-- 5 pjn, Bloodmobile, Mid- Misso- uri
Mental Health.
7: 30 p. m. " An Evening of Opera
Ensembles," faculty from Mid- Misso- uri
Associated Colleges and
Universities, University Fine Arts
Recital HaO, free.
8 p. m. " Human Desire," film,
University Middlebush Auditorium,
free.
mwi Firefighters battle Sunday's blaze at The Market Place, 114 N. Ninth St.
Delay made
fire worse,
officials say
By Leslie Hurst
Missourian staff writer
Fire officials attribute the quick
spread of Columbia's worst fire in five
years Sunday to the fact that the blaze
went undetected for some time. Six
businesses on Ninth and Ash streets,
collectively called the Market Place,
were damaged or destroyed in the
blaze.
Fire Chief Gerard Wren said he
thought the fire had been burning for
at least an hour before the fire
department was alerted. When
firefighters arrived on the scene
about 2: 30 p. m. the building was
engulfed.
All Columbia fire stations and more
than 30 firefighters responded to the
three- alar- m fire, which took four
hours to bring under control Boone
County Fire Protection District
personnel manned the city's stations
while city firefighters battled the
blaze.
Although the cause and damage
estimates of the fire have not been
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Workmen began cleaning up the fire scene
Monday. Sunday's Cure drew a crowd of
spectators, right, who watched from behind
determined, Fire Marshall Don
Christian said the blaze originated in
the northeast comer of the Carpet
Mart, a store in the building.
Arson is not suspected but the
possibility has not been dismissed.
BUI Rogers, co- own- er of the carpet
store, said he thought the store was
state police barriers as the flames ravaged the
two- stor- y building, which housed six
businesses.
insured enough to break even. Visibly
upset, Rogers said he was " still in
shock."
The building, owned by the First
Christian Church, 101 N. Tenth St.,
was leased to R. L. McCowan, owner
and operator of a photo studio there.
McCowan lived in a second- stor- y
apartment in the building. Church
officials could not be reached Monday
for comment.
Businesses involved in the fire :
Carpet Mart,' which suffered
flame and smoke damage. All of the
( See DESIGN, Page 14)
Council moves on bridge repair
By Mark Enoch, Diane Peckbam,
Dong Halonen and Dave Para
Missoorian staff writers
The first step toward county- cit- y
cooperation in raising money to
repair and replace many of the area's
bridges was approved Monday night
by the City Council.
After listening to Boone County
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh describe
some options for a bond issue election
to raise bridge money, the council
authorized the city staff to prepare a
report on cooperation for the election.
If the county receives 360
signatures by June 26, a bond issue
could be put on the Aug. 7 ballot.
City Counselor Rhonda Thomas
told file council it is legal for the city
and county to hold a joint bond
election, but she added that state
statutes require that city bridges on
' the ballot be on city roads that turn
into county roads outside city limits.
" It's almost hard to imagine any
bridge that does not qualify" under
state law, Freeh said.
Freeh presented three options to
the council, but added, " These aren't
by any means all the options that
would be available."
In the first option, the county alone
would issue a 20- ye- ar general
obligation bond issue of CT. 2 million to
replace 93 county bridges. This could
be paid with a road- and- brid- ge levy
increase of 15 cents per $ 100 of
assessed property valuation.
The second option would be to
replace both city and county bridges
with a $ 8.7 million bond issue. The
county share would be $ 7.2 million,
and the city share would be $ 1.5
million.
A third option encompasses the
first two, but includes more extensive
cooperation on the bridge issue, such
as hiring the same engineering firm.
Third Ward coundlwoman Diane
Fazish said there may be one
problem with an Aug. 7 election date
( See COUNCIL, Page 11)
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High court
reverses
Laetrile
decision
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Supporters
of Laetrile as a cancer treatment lost a
major round m the Supreme Court
Monday in the battle to halt gover-nmental
interference with its
distribution.
The justices ruled unanimously that
terminally ill patients have no special
right to obtain Laetrile through in-terstate
commerce. This reversed an
appeals court in Denver which decided
the substance did not fall under the
safety and effectiveness requirements
of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
However, the high court's decision
apparently leaves intact, at least
temporarily, a court injunction per-mitting
persons " certified" by a
physician as terminally ill to receive
Laetrile by injection.
And, since it deals with interstate
distribution, the ruling does not affect
19 states which have approved Laetrile
for sale and use within their borders.
Glen Rutherford of Conway, Kan.,
who brought the suit, expressed " utter
disbelief" at the decision in the matter
of the bitterly controversial drug made
from a substance in the pits of apricots.
" They have decided that the greed
for the dollar is greater than the value
of the human life, that 75,000 North
Americans are consigned to a long,
lingering, suffering death," he said.
Rutherford, 62, was diagnosed in 1971
as having intestinal cancer and claims
Laetrile treatments have kept him
alive.
But Donald Kennedy, commissioner
of the Food and Drug Administration,
called the high court's decision " an
important victory for consumers."
Kennedy said it ' upholds an ab-solutely
fundamental element of our
drug regulatory system which requires
that drugs be shown safe and effective
before marketing and that all patients,
including the terminally ill, are entitled
to equal protection."
Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote for
the court: " For the terminally ill, as for
anyone else, a drug is unsafe if its
potential for inflicting death or physical
injury is not offset by the possibility of
therapeutic benefit."
There is " no special provision" in the
law " for drugs used to treat terminally
ill patients," he said, and nothing which
" suggests that Congress intended
protection only for persons suffering
curable diseases."
The ruling does not appear to affect
plans by the National Cancer Institute
to test Laetrile on cancer patients qt
several medical centers.
The Supreme Court declined to m
on two aspects of the case: whetherth.
constitutional protection of privacy
allows Laetrile use, and whether 1962
food and drug law amendments
" grandfathered" Laetrile into the
marketplace without meeting the
safety and effectiveness tests required
for new drugs.
Closed- meetin- g policy suggested
ByMQceMansar
Missoorian staff writer
An " advisory" memorandum from
Stuart Campbell to city board and
commission members says there
should be only one reason for closed
meetings acquisition or sale of land.
The memo says that tins is because
most of the boards, committees and
commissions do not deal with litigation
or personnel actions. The only ex-ceptions
to tins rule could be the Per-sonnel
Advisory Board and Human
Rights Commission, since they might
deal with personnel actions and
litigations.
Unless the subject is the actual lease,
purchase or sale of real estate, the
meeting should be open, Campbell says
in the memo. The Missouri open- meetin- gs
law states that these areas
are cause for closed meetings if " public
knowledge of the transaction might
adversely affect the legal con-sideration."
The memo, dated June 11, was
prompted by questions concerning the
legality of recent closed city meetings.
The most recent closed session was
held by a group of members of the
Water and Light Advisory Board that
interviewed four consulting firms that
wanted to do an energy supply study for
the city.
Campbell said Monday that his
memorandum was " simply advisory."
Included with the letter was a copy of
the open- meetin- gs law and a comment
on the law from the city counselor's
office.
Campbell also restated the city's
ordinances on open meetings, which
specify the procedure for closing a
meeting. A closed meeting can be held,
he explained, only when so adjourned
or recessed from a properly called open
meeting.
A city ordinance on closed meetings
states that all consideration dealing
with a meeting's closure shall be open
to the public, and an affirmative vote of
the board's majority is necessary for
closure.
At the Water and Light meeting in
question, no discussion of me meeting's
closure was held in panne. Instead,
board Chairman Dave Wouersheim
( See SUNSHINE, Page 11)

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STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334
HITT 4 LOWRY ST. SERV
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
7 1 mi Your No. 231 UoimI Morning! h's Tut'silay, Juno . I) 7V 14 Pages 15 Cent.'
Carter tells nation of Victory' on SALT
WASHINGTON ( UPI) President
Carter told Congress and the American
people Monday night the new U. S.-
Soviet strategic arms limitation treaty
will survive critical scrutiny because it
is " clearly in the interest of American
security and world peace."
Carter addressed a joint session of
Congress about two hours after he
returned from Vienna, where earlier
Monday he and Soviet Communist
Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev signed
the arms pact the fruit of nearly
seven years of negotiations. After their
historic signing. Carter and Brezhnev
called the treaty a " victory" for
humanity in its effort to head off
nuclear destruction.
When the last of 16 signatures was
placed on four documents making up
the treaty, Carter rose and kissed
Brezhnev on both cheeks and the
presidents embraced in a warm ending
to the summit that brought them
together for the first time.
From the euphoria of Vienna, Carter
traveled straight into the harsh reality
of the Senate, where a formidable bloc
of anti- SAL- T senators already had
begun sniping at the pact and
promising to bury it under unac-ceptable
" killer" amendments even as
he flew home. A two- thir- ds vote in the
Senate is necessary for the treaty's
ratification.
" The truth of the nuclear age is that
United States and the Soviet Union
must live in peace or we may not live
at all," Carter said in a nationally
televised address delivered from the
hall of the House of Representatives.
" My fellow Americans, the pattern of
war must now be broken forever," he
said. " Between nations armed with
thousands of thermonuclear weapons
each capable of causing unimaginable
destruction there can be no more
cycles of war and peace. There can only
be peace."
He said he would deliver the treaty to
the Senate this week for ratification a
vote not expected to occur until late this
fall.
He cautioned that SALT II would not
end U. S.- Sovi- et rivalry, adding that the
competition between the superpowers
is " based on fundamentally different
visions of human society and human
destiny."
" In any age, such a rivalry risks
degenerating into war," he said, " but
our age is unique, for the terrible power
of nuclear weapons has created an
incentive for avoiding war that tran
scends even very deep differences of
politics and philosophy."
In the era of the hydrogen bomb, he
said, " there is no longer any
meaningful distincton between global
war and global suicide."
In a passage obviously addressed to
SALT critics who have begun accusing
him of " appeasing" the Russians, the
president said the United States would
also maintain " strong military forces,
strong alliances and a strong national
resolve so strong that no potential
adversary could be tempted to attack
us."
Reviewing some of its mam
provisions, the president noted that the
pact for the first time places equal
numerical ceilings on the strategic
arsenals of each side and ends a Soviet
advantage in that area.
He also said it preserves U. S. options
to build the forces needed to maintain
the strategic balance and " enhances
our ability to monitor Soviet actions. ' '
In rushing straight to Capitol Hill, the
president underscored the fact that
SALT II faces a ratification struggle
that could be decided by one or two
votes, a struggle in which no chance for
dramatic lobbying can be wasted
Insight
SALT II
faces ordeal
in Senate
By Jim Anderson
United Press International
SALT n is so complex and involves
such frightening weapons that the
Senate will be tempted to decide its fate
on an emotional basis if this treaty is
good for the Russians, can it be good for
America?
To President Carter, the answer is an
emphatic yes. He, and other treaty
supporters, think it provides the last,
best hope for stopping the arms race,
something that will benefit both sides
and lessen chances for nuclear war.
Opponents such as Sen. Henry
Jackson, D- Wa- sh., say the Russians get
all the advantages. He calls the treaty
" appeasement in its purest form."
Senate debate on the treaty starts
next month and probably will last until
Thanksgiving, given the high feelings
tiie pact evokes and the complex
provisions whose meaning even
military and intelligence experts
cannot agree upon.
It is the complexity that will tempt
some senators to do what some court
juries do when bewildered by con-flicting
expert testimony, render a
verdict based on gut feeling.
Another temptation will be to tinker
with treaty provisions, an approach
both Carter and Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev have warned against
since the pact contains so many trade-offs.
Numerically, the advantage is with
opponents as debate starts, because the
treaty cannot be ratified unless two- thir- ds
of the Senate votes for it.
To make the Senate's job easier, and
to support his case, Carter will offer his
own detailed analysis of the treaty
package.
The package itself is 55 typewritten
pages long, single- - and double- space- d.
Interspersed in the text, are " agreed
statements" and " common un-derstandings."
These detailed ex-planations
of fine points in the
agreement are designed to clear up
ambiguities.
Early criticism of the treaty has
homed in on an attached letter from
Brezhnev to Carter stating that the
Soviet Union will not increase the
" radius of action" of its Backfire
bomber.
In town
today
9 a. m. Boone County Court, fifth
floor, County- Cit- y Building.
11 a. m.-- 5 pjn, Bloodmobile, Mid- Misso- uri
Mental Health.
7: 30 p. m. " An Evening of Opera
Ensembles," faculty from Mid- Misso- uri
Associated Colleges and
Universities, University Fine Arts
Recital HaO, free.
8 p. m. " Human Desire," film,
University Middlebush Auditorium,
free.
mwi Firefighters battle Sunday's blaze at The Market Place, 114 N. Ninth St.
Delay made
fire worse,
officials say
By Leslie Hurst
Missourian staff writer
Fire officials attribute the quick
spread of Columbia's worst fire in five
years Sunday to the fact that the blaze
went undetected for some time. Six
businesses on Ninth and Ash streets,
collectively called the Market Place,
were damaged or destroyed in the
blaze.
Fire Chief Gerard Wren said he
thought the fire had been burning for
at least an hour before the fire
department was alerted. When
firefighters arrived on the scene
about 2: 30 p. m. the building was
engulfed.
All Columbia fire stations and more
than 30 firefighters responded to the
three- alar- m fire, which took four
hours to bring under control Boone
County Fire Protection District
personnel manned the city's stations
while city firefighters battled the
blaze.
Although the cause and damage
estimates of the fire have not been
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Steve Mcffeaty NfckLammrr
Workmen began cleaning up the fire scene
Monday. Sunday's Cure drew a crowd of
spectators, right, who watched from behind
determined, Fire Marshall Don
Christian said the blaze originated in
the northeast comer of the Carpet
Mart, a store in the building.
Arson is not suspected but the
possibility has not been dismissed.
BUI Rogers, co- own- er of the carpet
store, said he thought the store was
state police barriers as the flames ravaged the
two- stor- y building, which housed six
businesses.
insured enough to break even. Visibly
upset, Rogers said he was " still in
shock."
The building, owned by the First
Christian Church, 101 N. Tenth St.,
was leased to R. L. McCowan, owner
and operator of a photo studio there.
McCowan lived in a second- stor- y
apartment in the building. Church
officials could not be reached Monday
for comment.
Businesses involved in the fire :
Carpet Mart,' which suffered
flame and smoke damage. All of the
( See DESIGN, Page 14)
Council moves on bridge repair
By Mark Enoch, Diane Peckbam,
Dong Halonen and Dave Para
Missoorian staff writers
The first step toward county- cit- y
cooperation in raising money to
repair and replace many of the area's
bridges was approved Monday night
by the City Council.
After listening to Boone County
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh describe
some options for a bond issue election
to raise bridge money, the council
authorized the city staff to prepare a
report on cooperation for the election.
If the county receives 360
signatures by June 26, a bond issue
could be put on the Aug. 7 ballot.
City Counselor Rhonda Thomas
told file council it is legal for the city
and county to hold a joint bond
election, but she added that state
statutes require that city bridges on
' the ballot be on city roads that turn
into county roads outside city limits.
" It's almost hard to imagine any
bridge that does not qualify" under
state law, Freeh said.
Freeh presented three options to
the council, but added, " These aren't
by any means all the options that
would be available."
In the first option, the county alone
would issue a 20- ye- ar general
obligation bond issue of CT. 2 million to
replace 93 county bridges. This could
be paid with a road- and- brid- ge levy
increase of 15 cents per $ 100 of
assessed property valuation.
The second option would be to
replace both city and county bridges
with a $ 8.7 million bond issue. The
county share would be $ 7.2 million,
and the city share would be $ 1.5
million.
A third option encompasses the
first two, but includes more extensive
cooperation on the bridge issue, such
as hiring the same engineering firm.
Third Ward coundlwoman Diane
Fazish said there may be one
problem with an Aug. 7 election date
( See COUNCIL, Page 11)
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High court
reverses
Laetrile
decision
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Supporters
of Laetrile as a cancer treatment lost a
major round m the Supreme Court
Monday in the battle to halt gover-nmental
interference with its
distribution.
The justices ruled unanimously that
terminally ill patients have no special
right to obtain Laetrile through in-terstate
commerce. This reversed an
appeals court in Denver which decided
the substance did not fall under the
safety and effectiveness requirements
of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
However, the high court's decision
apparently leaves intact, at least
temporarily, a court injunction per-mitting
persons " certified" by a
physician as terminally ill to receive
Laetrile by injection.
And, since it deals with interstate
distribution, the ruling does not affect
19 states which have approved Laetrile
for sale and use within their borders.
Glen Rutherford of Conway, Kan.,
who brought the suit, expressed " utter
disbelief" at the decision in the matter
of the bitterly controversial drug made
from a substance in the pits of apricots.
" They have decided that the greed
for the dollar is greater than the value
of the human life, that 75,000 North
Americans are consigned to a long,
lingering, suffering death," he said.
Rutherford, 62, was diagnosed in 1971
as having intestinal cancer and claims
Laetrile treatments have kept him
alive.
But Donald Kennedy, commissioner
of the Food and Drug Administration,
called the high court's decision " an
important victory for consumers."
Kennedy said it ' upholds an ab-solutely
fundamental element of our
drug regulatory system which requires
that drugs be shown safe and effective
before marketing and that all patients,
including the terminally ill, are entitled
to equal protection."
Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote for
the court: " For the terminally ill, as for
anyone else, a drug is unsafe if its
potential for inflicting death or physical
injury is not offset by the possibility of
therapeutic benefit."
There is " no special provision" in the
law " for drugs used to treat terminally
ill patients," he said, and nothing which
" suggests that Congress intended
protection only for persons suffering
curable diseases."
The ruling does not appear to affect
plans by the National Cancer Institute
to test Laetrile on cancer patients qt
several medical centers.
The Supreme Court declined to m
on two aspects of the case: whetherth.
constitutional protection of privacy
allows Laetrile use, and whether 1962
food and drug law amendments
" grandfathered" Laetrile into the
marketplace without meeting the
safety and effectiveness tests required
for new drugs.
Closed- meetin- g policy suggested
ByMQceMansar
Missoorian staff writer
An " advisory" memorandum from
Stuart Campbell to city board and
commission members says there
should be only one reason for closed
meetings acquisition or sale of land.
The memo says that tins is because
most of the boards, committees and
commissions do not deal with litigation
or personnel actions. The only ex-ceptions
to tins rule could be the Per-sonnel
Advisory Board and Human
Rights Commission, since they might
deal with personnel actions and
litigations.
Unless the subject is the actual lease,
purchase or sale of real estate, the
meeting should be open, Campbell says
in the memo. The Missouri open- meetin- gs
law states that these areas
are cause for closed meetings if " public
knowledge of the transaction might
adversely affect the legal con-sideration."
The memo, dated June 11, was
prompted by questions concerning the
legality of recent closed city meetings.
The most recent closed session was
held by a group of members of the
Water and Light Advisory Board that
interviewed four consulting firms that
wanted to do an energy supply study for
the city.
Campbell said Monday that his
memorandum was " simply advisory."
Included with the letter was a copy of
the open- meetin- gs law and a comment
on the law from the city counselor's
office.
Campbell also restated the city's
ordinances on open meetings, which
specify the procedure for closing a
meeting. A closed meeting can be held,
he explained, only when so adjourned
or recessed from a properly called open
meeting.
A city ordinance on closed meetings
states that all consideration dealing
with a meeting's closure shall be open
to the public, and an affirmative vote of
the board's majority is necessary for
closure.
At the Water and Light meeting in
question, no discussion of me meeting's
closure was held in panne. Instead,
board Chairman Dave Wouersheim
( See SUNSHINE, Page 11)